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Annual Survey on Unincorporated Sector Enterprises
Regional Training Conferenceon the FIRST ROUND of Annual Survey of Unincorporated Sector Enterprises  for Field Officials of the National Statistical Office , Tamil Nadu  Region under the Union Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, will be organized from 18-09-2019 to 20-09-2019 at Chennai. The representatives from Directorate of Economics and Statistics,Puducherry will also be participating in the event. The Conference will be heldatThe Vestin Park  No-39,Red Cross Road, Egmore,Chennai-600 008.
Dr. S. Durai Raju, Deputy Director General, NSSO , Tamil Nadu  Region will inaugurate the Conference on 18th September2019. The Technical Sessions would be conducted by Smt. AnithaParthasaradhi, Assistant Director and she will be assisted by a team of Senior Statistical Officers.
National Statistical Office  of India will be conducting Annual Survey on Unincorporated Sector Enterprises  during October 2019 – March 2020. This is the first round of ASUSE and the survey period for the initial round will be for six months. However, based on the survey experience, next round of ASUSE will be launched from April, 2020 and will continue for one year i.e. up to March, 2021. This cycle  is expected to continue in subsequent years.
This survey will be devoted exclusively to economic and operational characteristics of unincorporated non-agricultural establishments in manufacturing, trade and other services sector.
In Indian economy, unincorporated sector is important because of the large number of establishments in this sector and the magnitude of employment it provides to unskilled/ semi-skilled/ skilled persons, besides its contribution to Gross Domestic Product of the country. The necessity for reliable and comprehensive data pertaining to unincorporated sector for planning and policy formulations needs no emphasis. This round is devoted exclusively to an integrated survey on economic and operational characteristics of unincorporated non-agricultural enterprises in manufacturing, trade and other services sectors to supplement the corporate sector data. This will help National Accounts Division  of NSO to compute important components of national accounts. Specially designed three digit product codes introduced in the enterprise schedule of this round will help NAD also make use of the survey results in preparation of Supply-Use Table. The data to be collected in this round will help in meeting the requirements of different Ministries, Organizations and users in general.
The coverage of first round of Annual Survey of Unincorporated Sector Enterprises   will be unincorporated non-agricultural establishments belonging to three sectors viz., Manufacturing, Trade and Other Services.
The survey will cover the rural and urban areas of whole of India .
The period of survey for 1st round of ASUSE will be of six months duration starting from 1st October 2019 and ending on 31st march 2020. The Information collected pertaining to an individual or establishment in the survey is kept confidential and is not revealed to anybody, including other Departments. The General Public is requested to extend their fullest co-operation by providing relevant, valuable and factual information to the visiting field officials of NSSO , and contribute their might in the Nation Building Process.